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Researchers partner with the Government of Punjab to scale a curriculum that combats misbeliefs among youth about drug experimentation and addiction to all government-run secondary schools in the state, reaching more than 750k students.

Hardware is hard but software is harder — India has built the hardware. Now the country must focus on the software – the people, their skills, their health and education, the economist tells Moneycontrol

Eight years into the Rohingya refugee crisis, sustainable solutions are urgently needed. This study assessed the impact of paid work, cash transfers, and volunteer activities on the psychosocial wellbeing of 2,513 married refugee couples in Cox’s Bazar.

Iqbal Dhaliwal, Global Executive Director, J-PAL (Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab), which is based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT’s) economics department and works to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence, believes that cash transfers on...

States need to improve their financial health to achieve faster poverty reduction goals, J-PAL, part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), global executive director Iqbal Singh Dhaliwal has said.

Iqbal Singh Dhaliwal of J-PAL urges states to strengthen finances for poverty reduction, highlighting excessive welfare schemes and unproductive fund use. He advocates investing in human capital like schools and health centers over cash, while warning of AI-induced job losses in India that...